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The hearing will come to order. A number of members on both sides of the aisle have raised questions about the executive authorities with respect to warmaking and the use of Nuclear Weapons, entering into an agreement with other countries. This is the first time the Foreign Relations committee of the senate or house has met on this topic since 1976. Warng the decision to go to is a heavy responsibility for our nations elected leaders. The Atomic Energy act of 1946 and the practices represent the use of Nuclear Weapons must be subject to political control. This is why no general or admiral has the authority to order the use of Nuclear Weapons, only the president , the elected political leader of the United States has this authority. The Nuclear Arms Race between ussrnited states and the dramatically increase the risk of Nuclear Conflict. We plan for the end thinkable him how to get missiles in the air without within those few coulds before warheads destroy our ability to respond. There
Biographers. Hamilton had a quarrel with washington late the revolutionary war. He quit washingtons staff in anger and wrote a letter to his father. He painted washington as a moody and temperamental man. He said, the general and i have come to a rupture and he shale shall at once repent of his illhumor. A member thinking how George Washington should have to conform to that saintly image ahead of George Washington. Got me thinking that perhaps the most familiar figure was in many ways the most unfamiliar. Charlie what now do we know that makes the unfamiliar familiar . I discovered that under the surface, washington was a passionate and complex man with many militant fiery opinions. He was a fierce perfect perfectionist but it was all under this reserve and stoic, butnic aura that we know there was a fierce personality under that facade. Charlie could you make the case that without George Washington, the revolution would have failed . And author used the phrase earlier, the indispensab
Ben franklin, of course, had been had switched. He had owned slaves when he was younger, he became a leading abolitionist, ben franklin. People can change. Washington couldnt change that much. But on his deathbed hed written two wills. With we dont know what was in one. On his death bed he asked that both be brought to him. He tore up one and asked that it be burned. And the one that remains is the one that freed the slaves. Washington was a man of action, not of words. And he must have believed, because this was that this act would send a message to the future. I dont think he wanted to be on the wrong side of history. He wanted to send a message, and thats how he sent it, through his action. Do we have time for one more . Nope. Unfortunately, i dont have any time. Ill walk down and talk to you, but thank you so much for coming. Its been a delight to be here. [applause] on capitol hill tomorrow morning, the acting chief of the u. S. Border patrol briefs members of the House Oversight